Be free…. be yourself with Linux.

Working with Linux Command Line (part 1 of 3)

Below are the common commands that are used in Linux. Although many Linux Distros provide a good GUI (graphical user interface), there are a lot of linux-ers still exciting to use these Command Lines. Me, myself, I use it everyday. If you know how to use it, you can setup your system in seconds.

For example, when you to change your ip address (192.168.0.2) and ip gateway (192.168.0.1) from DHCP to static through GUI, at least you need at about 25 seconds. If you are get used to with Command Lines you can set it in less than 15 seconds. Because, what you need it is only open the Linux terminal and type:

If you want to know what is ‘the function for a command line that you find’ and dig more information about it, you can use these commands.

For example, if you want to know what is ‘chage’, then just type.

taufanlubis@toshiba:~$ whatis chage

Then, when you want to go into details, just type:

taufanlubis@toshiba:~$ man chage (to quit type ‘:‘ then ‘q‘)

chage – change user password expiry information.

taufanlubis@toshiba:~$ man chage (check the manual)

taufanlubis@toshiba:~$ chage -l taufanlubis

Last password change : Nov 18, 2007
Password expires : never
Password inactive : never
Account expires : never
Minimum number of days between password change : 0
Maximum number of days between password change : 99999
Number of days of warning before password expires : 7
taufanlubis@toshiba:~$